SOUNDEX

[olivier]

> What is soundex?

It is the (simple) algorithm which allows to examine in a phonetic way.
It is useful especially for the family names. it was invented in 1918  
for the census of American population.

He allows to examine not names themselves but their consonance.
Very useful when there are spelling mistakes for example.

There are several variants of Soundex but the original algorithm (very  
simple) is always very used (we find easily this algorithm on  
internet).
it is integrated, for example, into oracle or SQL server.

Eg, in French, if we look for the 'GROS' name, for soundex find:
- GRAU
- GROS
- GROSS
- GROZ
- GRAS
- GRASS

In Russia, I believe that it was improved by Vladimir Levenshtein.
In France, there are variants adapted to our pronunciation (Phonex for  
example). In fact, we can easily program it there realbasic

But maybe that he it would be faster if it was integrated into  
Valentina?

olivier

http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&s=1090024022: 
37902&page=ibp_howto4
http://www.developersdomain.com/vb/articles/soundex.htm
http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm
http://sqlpro.developpez.com/Soundex/SQL_AZ_soundex.html